Leopold Bachelot

Leopold Bachelot (1771-1826) was a Colonel of the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
Leopold Bachelot was born in Sens, Yonne department, France in 1771 to a family of the Third Estate, and he worked as a lawyer for years. During the French Revolution, he entered the French Revolutionary Army, and he rose to the rank of Colonel in the Army of Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars. Bachelot commanded a regiment during Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian Campaign against Sardinia-Piedmont and Austria, leading the regiment at the Battle of Savona in 1796. Bachelot would command this regiment under Bonaparte during the campaign, fighting his way from Liguria to Carinthia. Bachelot fought in the Napoleonic Wars as well, and he would later retire to Paris, dying in Les Invalides in 1826 at the age of 55.